"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [Mrs. Walter Creyke]

"When I Am Dead, My Dearest" [Mrs. Walter Creyke]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Creyke, Mrs. Walter [Caroline]; music (English)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1894 [publication]

London: Weekes & Company

genre: song

solo: voice

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one flat

initial time signature: 6/8

origin: United Kingdom

female composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Tempo markings: "Andante"

Dedication: "To Diane"

Notes: The sixth song of six in a song collection called "Six Songs," which includes 1. "Mutability" (Percy Shelley); 2. "Good-Bye, Dear Heart" (Lucas Malet, a.k.a. Mary St Leger Kingsley); 3. "Reverie" (Victor Hugo); 4. "Love's Dream" (Unknown); 5. "Oh, Love, Forbear" (Anonymous); 6. "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" (Christina Rossetti).

Format 1: musical score

4 pages (pp. 26-29)

In reference to the published works below: Ives DM124

Reference: Ives, Maura. Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.

Cataloguer: Van A. Mantha-Ware, University of Ottawa

musical score: Creyke, Walter. "When I Am Dead My Dearest." Six Songs. Weekes & Co, 1894. Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/559365.

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-creyke

File(s): CRM-songwheniamdead-creyke.pdf

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